About the Symbol in Cassirer´s: Essay on Man

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 20th century, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabrück, course: Philosophie, language: English, abstract: Seeing shadows like the prisoners in the cave of Plato’s simile1, that’s what life of man would be like if he had not the symbol. Without symbols, mans life would be confined within the limits of his biological needs and...